"Presumably in Severodonetsk - from two to three thousand personnel, in Lisichansk - from four to six thousand personnel," he said, TASS quotes Kiselyov's words.

He clarified that the Ukrainian security forces are located precisely around these cities, for example, in summer cottages or small towns.

On May 25, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that the Russian military entered Lisichansk in the LPR and almost entered Severodonetsk.